Thomas Godfrey’s Prince of Parthia has a complicated legacy. It is credited as being the first theatrical play written and performed by Americans. Yet,...
In the bizarre book, The Malleus Maleficarum (published 1487), inquisitors Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger wrote down the strange beliefs and lore held by...
Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)
"Utility is an impermanent thing: it changes according to circumstances."
From The Nicomachean Ethics (Book VIII, section 3, Bekker page 1156a) by Aristotle,...